Have you ever found yourself laying in bed wide awake in the middle of the night?
You know how it is: the clock’s clicking past 1:30 AM and you lay there wide awake, eyes bugged open, chewing your upper lip, tapping the sheets with your fingers, completely frustrated. Your pupils have long adjusted to the dark, so your eyes are darting around the room over and over, trying to identify dark shapes or watching the moonlight shadowdance around the walls. Maybe your thoughts won’t settle down, or you just can’t get comfortable, or you ate spicy food before bed, or you have a presentation the next morning, or maybe it’s just the frustration itself keeping you in a terrible, neverending cycle of sleeplessness.
So you play dead and try to remain motionless as long as possible. You change positions back and forth, side to side, left to right. You get up and go to the bathroom or start reading a book. Maybe you try and remake the bed, since by now you’ve probably managed to twist your sheets and blankets into a completely unusable, tightly wound pile barely covering your legs.
On nights like this, where you just can’t sleep, one of the greatest things invented is simply Turning Over The Pillow. Yes, flipping over your pillow and checking out the other side takes Bed Comfort up a few notches and is a simple and easy way to help you relax and get more comfortable.
The other side of the pillow, folks. Because it’s flat when you’re sagging, fresh when you’re stale, and cold when you’re hot, baby.
AWESOME!
“You’re cooler than the other side of the pillow!” ;)
I used to do this all the time when I was a kid. I need to start doing this again. I also used to sandwich my head between the cool side of the matress under the pillow, and the cool side of the pillow. I guess that wasn’t very safe, but it was very comfy.
I still sleep with one had under my pillow. All the time, laying on my side or back, my hand is under my pillow!
And the first time I read your comment, I swear I thought it said that you keep a sandwhich under your pillow!
I’ll have to try this! It would also be dry and droll free:)
Works for me, too! Falling back to sleep is always easier if I flip the pillow.
I used to do this ALL the time, but I can’t really do it now. My pillow is contour, so its shaped funny. The bottom is flat and the top is curved. If I flip it over, it’ll just be a big mess. I do flip my baby’s pillow in the middle of the night for him. He wakes up crying, I flip his pillow and cover him up and he’s happy….. for a little bit anyway.